Penn State Recruit Zayd Issah Arrested For Using Counterfeit Money at McDonald's

Zayd Issah, a linebacker recruit in Penn State’s incoming 2013 class, was arrested earlier this month for allegedly passing counterfeit $20 bills at McDonald’s. Issah, a 3-star Rivals recruit out of Harrisburg, PA, was caught along with two friends after drive-thru workers called the police and gave them the teens’ license plate number. From The Patriot News:

According to arrest papers filed with District Judge James Lenker, Issah and two other suspects fled when police were called to the scene. The other two suspects were later identified and apprehended and both of them implicated Issah in the alleged scheme, police said.

They said the other suspects, long-time friends of Issah, said Issah had passed counterfeit bills at two locations.

Police said Facebook messages between Issah and one suspect were intercepted and proved that Issah knew the money was fake and that he solicited a plan to “clean” it. The bogus cash was used to buy the three food at local fast-food restaurants, police said.

Issah was charged with two felony counts each of forgery and conspiracy to forgery and four misdemeanor charges of theft by deception. He is cooperating with police and it is unlikely he will receive any jail time.

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http://i.imgur.com/Ns8ac.gif VladimirCrouton

Sounds about right.

Ty_Webb

Typical Pennsylvania

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these fucking kids can’t catch a break. I bet some caring booster gave him the fake money trying to keep him within the rules of not accepting benefits, cause it’s fake money you see? and cause every college student should be able to eat a burger every now and then, yo. now he’s got the fuzz up his ass as opposed to the NCAA.

SportsIndustrialComplex

now he’s got the fuzz up his ass as opposed to the NCAA.

“You like that?”

-NCAA

Triston27

both of them implicated Issah in the alleged scheme, police said.

Snitches get stitches!

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Penn State Recruit Zayd Issah Arrested For Using Counterfeit Money at McDonald’s

Kind of shocked upon reading this headline that 1) Duffy didn’t write the post and 2) that Issah didn’t murder six people while buying food with fake money.

scripty

If Manti Te’o buys a plane ticket for his fake girlfriend with counterfeit money, is it still catfishing?

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+1 for the “money be green” line.

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Police said Facebook messages between Issah and one suspect were intercepted and proved that Issah knew the money was fake and that he solicited a plan to “clean” it. The bogus cash was used to buy the three food at local fast-food restaurants, police said.

I don’t think he understands the concept of money laundering. When you don’t turn counterfeit or ill-gotten money into money with clean origins, or a durable good which you then sell, it’s not ‘cleaning’ it… it’s just turning it into a shitty McDonald’s cheeseburger.

1) Duffy didn’t write the post

He’s not in the NCAA yet… not even Duffy is going to get on board the “pay the high school players” bandwagon.